Melvyn NewMelvyn New, Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, has been publishing on eighteenth-century literature for fifty years. He served as General Editor of the University of Florida Edition of the Works of Sterne, the ninth and final volume of hich was published in 2014. Recent essays include 'Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison and Sterne: A Study in Influence', Modern Philology (2017); with M. C. Newbould, 'Reconsidering a Sternean Attribution: Cambridge University Library's 'Sterne Volume' ', The Library (2017); and with Robert G. Walker, Who Killed Tom Cumming the Quaker? Recovering the Life Story of an Eighteenth-Century Adventurer, Modern Philology (2019). He has been the Book Review Editor for The Scriblerian for the past fifteen years. Read More Read Less